George Young, Jr.

YOUNG, REILING

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Date: 5/5/2010 at 20:18:37

History of Jackson County, Iowa, James W. Ellis, 1910

GEORGE YOUNG, JR.

George Young, senior partner of the firm, operating under the name of J. G. Young and associated with Joseph A. Young in various business enterprises, has spent his entire life in Bellevue, where he was born February 22, 1868. He continued his education until he had completed all but the last year's work in the high school. He afterward spent three years in Dubuque, learning the trades of a jeweler and watchmaker, and in these lines of business has since been engaged. He became associated with his brother, Joseph A. Young, in the ownership and conduct of the hardware business which the father had established. They also conduct a plumbing department and in one part of their store carry a large line of jewelry and have a jewelry and watch repair department in this connection. Both brothers possess excellent mechanical ability and George Young has displayed much inventive genius, resulting in the production of various valuable devices.
On the 25th of October, 1909, George Young was married to Miss Amelia Reiling, a daughter of A. E. Reiling, a pioneer flour manufacturer of Bellevue. The Young families are prominent socially here and the brothers are members of Bellevue Lodge. No. 51, A. F. & A. M., and George Young has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of De Molay Consistory, No. 1, of Clinton. They are both members of the Commercial Club and take active and helpful interest in promoting the commercial and industrial growth of the city. In politics they are stalwart republicans and are public-spirited men, giving active aid to many projects for the general good. George Young was a member of the park commission and Joe Young was one of the promoters of park improvement and in beautifying the city. Both were active in securing the common and raised the funds for the Riverside Park. Whatever tends to benefit Bellevue has their endorsement, and while working toward the ideal, they use practical means for its accomplishment.